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STATE HIsr'Riri .
75th Year No. 62 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, November 24, 1982 2 Sections 12 Pages 25 Cents
Reagan to seek gas tax increase to aid highways
WASHINGTON ( UPI) Presi-dent
Reagan said Tuesday be will
ask Congress to boost the federal
gasoline tax by 5 cents a gallon to
pay for a massive highway and
bridge repair program expected to
create more than 300,000 jobs.
Reagan, who declared the plan is
" not a jobs bill," made the an-nouncement
after meeting with his
Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs
moments before leaving the White
House for a weeklong Thanksgiving
holiday in California
He also said he is weighing other
measures, including moving the 10
percent personal income tax cut up
to January, " to give our economy a
fresh boost as we head into 1983."
Chief staff aides of House Demo-cratic
leaders were drafting a sepa-rate
public works jobs bill for intro-duction
in the lame- duc- k session and
planned to confer with Senate Re-publican
leader Howard Baker's
staff today in hopes they can per-suade
Baker to support the measure.
Democratic sources said the jobs
proposal would include a number of
programs involving housing, ad-vancing
some $ 2 billion in General
Services Administration repair pro
jects for public facilities and target-ing
jobs for the long- ter- m unem-ployed
The sources said the plan
was in the preliminary stage, and
they had not yet estimated how
many people could be provided jobs
by the initiative.
A fifth of the estimated $ 5.5 billion
a year the higher gas tax would raise
would go to aid mass transit Rea-gan
said the money would help cities
replace aging buses and rail cars.
The extra nickel would be on top of
the 4- ce- nt gasoline excise tax im-posed
m the 1950s to pay for the in-terstate
highway system. While the
administration envisions about a
five- ye- ar repair program costing
$ 27.5 billion, there has been no sign
the added tax would ever be lifted.
Reagan, speaking to reporters in
the White House press center, said,
" It's my hope that this package can
be high on the agenda when Con-gress
returns to Washington next
week" for a post- electi- on session.
Based on his " early soundings,"
the president said he expects the
proposal to " command broad bipar-tisan
support."
A spokesman for House Speaker
Thomas O'Neill, who has endorsed
the gas tax, said the highway mea-sure
will be a priority item during
the lame- duc- k session, but only " one
of many priorities."
How quickly the program creates
jobs depends primarily on how fast
Congress acts If final action is tak-en
next month, lawmakers could di-rect
that spending on road repairs
begin early next year
Referring to the tax as " the high-way
user fee," Reagan said the addi-tional
5- ce- nt levy will cost the aver-age
motorist $ 30 a year.
He stressed the decrepit condition
of the nation's highways m announc-ing
he would back the plan, but with
11 6 million Americans unemployed,
Reagan has been under pressure to
come up with a jobs program
While saying, " There's no question
that there will obviously be some
employment with it," Reagan in-sisted,
" This is not a jobs bill as
such It is a necessity ' '
The view from Capitol Hill is dif-ferent
The revival of the bill, which
was proposed by Transportation Sec-retary
Drew Lewis last May and re-jected
by Reagan, is seen as a way
of generating 320,000 jobs
It appeared that Reagan moved
quickly to hop aboard a bandwagon
that O Neill and Senate Republican
leader Baker started Monday when
they agreed to proceed with the tax
Colin Hsdfv
A multi- vehicl- e collision blocks traffic on the Interstate 70 bridge over the Missouri River.
" Curs, tracks crash on icy Interstate bridge
By Julia Lobbia
Mlssourian staff writer
The Missouri State Highway Pa-trol
reported three separate acci-dents
Tuesday all within minutes
and feet of each other. The accidents
occurred on the Interstate 70 bndge
over the Missouri River less than
four hours after the season's first
substantial snow fell mthe area
No one was hurt in any of the three
accidents involving eight vehicles,
according to Highway Patrol Sgt
Kenneth Campbell.
Two- tent- hs of an inch of snow fell
by noon in Columbia. Winds aver-aged
15 mph. In northern Missouri,
about an inch of snow fell and wmds
reached 25 mph in some areas.
With the wuid- ch- ul factor, the Na-tional
Weather Service said the tem-perature
at Columbia Regional Air-port
fell to 3 degrees at least three
times Tuesday.
The weather service said that
Tuesday's snowy conditions should
not continue through the Thanksgiv-ing
holiday weekend. The Highway
Patrol and Columbia police said
there were not many weather- relate- d
traffic accidents.
The weather service, however, did
issue a warning that bndges and un-derpasses
could be slick.
Li the accidents along Interstate
70 just after noon, Sgt Campbell
gave the following accounts
The first accident occured at 12 15
pjn. on the bridge one- fift- h of a mile
outside Boone County. Kenneth Har-rison,
23, of Sedaha, tried to slow his
car. When he did, the car hit and be-came
entangled with a passing vehi-cle.
When Harrison's car finally
broke loose, it was struck in the rear
by a tractor- traile- r driven by Dayton
Ettersvold, 30, of Minnesota
That wasn't the end of it for Ham- so- n.
Propelled by Ettersvold's truck,
Harrison's car struck an auto driven
by Pao Ae Shang, 27, of Columbia
According to the Highway Patrol,
Shang's car lost control on the ice- cover- ed
bridge.
The other accidents less than a
minute later and one- tent- h of a mile
away involved two cars, one pick-up
truck and trailer, and two tractor- t-railers
The first car, driven by
Suzan S Neely, 18, of Kansas City,
Mo , was traveling westbound and
began to slow. The second vehicle
was a pick- u- p truck with an animal
trailer attached, driven by Phillip
Forsythe, 37, of Pans, Mo. Forsythe
apparently lost control, and his pick-up
was struck by a third truck driv-en
by Doug Schwen, 28, of Louis-ville,
Ky. Forsythe's truck then hit
Neely's car
At the same time, an 18- wh- eel
tractor- traile- r, driven by James Al- dentayl- or,
33, of Webster, S D , side--
See SNOW, Page 8A
Bars to install
breath testers
CREVE COEUR, Mo. ( UPI)
Customers of bars and res-taurants
in this St. Louis sub-urb
soon will be confronted by
breath- testin- g machines that
will allow patrons to deter-mine
whether they have had
too much to drink.
The ordinance adopted Mon-day
is believed to be the first
of its type in the nation, Mayor
Harold Dielmann said.
Use of the machines would
be voluntary, and the results
could not be used in court
Dielmann said the ordinance
is part of the suburb's effort to
combat drunken driving. The
measure, which goes into ef-fect
Dec. 10, covers establish-ments
that each year sell
more than $ 100,000 in liquor by
thednnk.
" If we can save, one, two or
maybe 12 lives a year, then it's
worth it," Dielmann said.
Inside
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Road problems overrun state legislators
By Richard Mytiro
Mlssourian staff writer
One ot the more ticklish problems state legis-lators
will face this January will be how to get tax
money for road and bndge improvements so Mis-souri
will not lose huge chunks of federal match-ing
funds
Last year, legislators saw a crisis coming and
pitched a solution to voters in the form of Proposi-tion
B, which included a 4- cents- a--
gallon gasoline
tax and increased driver's license fees That
would have raised about $ 114 million, enough to
keep federal dollars rolling in on a 9- t- o- l matching
system for interstate highways.
But Proposition B took a drubbing Nov 2 when
more than 870,000 Missounans turned it down In
Boone County, voters spt on the issue, with 50 7
percent opting for the tax
The legislature including Boone County's
three freshmen represen atives, Jim Pauley, Ken
Jacob and Chns Kelly aM state Sen. Roger Wi-lson,
all Democrats will face the issue anew
when the General Assembly convenes in January
Some observers speculate legislators may choose
to enact a reworked version of the rejected gas
tax.
Three of the four local legislators said they
voted for the ballot measure three weeks ago, but
a similiar legislative proposal next session would
get only mixed support from the group Jacob is
not saying what he will do, Wilson and Paule said
they prefer a flat percentage that would increase
taxes with inflation, and Kelly is out of town and
unavailable for comment
Most observers agree the state will be in a pinch i
unless the General Assembly does something this i
session State Highway Department officials say !
that by late 1983 the pot will run dry, and the de-- 1
partment will lose matching federal highway ,
funds With a bleak funding outlook, the depart-ment
shelved projects such as resurfacing 6x-- 2
miles of Route B and 7 miles of U S 63 north of In- -
See GAS TAX, Page 8A
Eat steak and be healthy, too
Study shows cholesterol level equal in all meats
United Press international
Steak may not be as traditional as
turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, but
if you choose to indulge in sirloin, at
least your arteries will not complain,
a new study en blood cholesterol has
found.
Beef, or pork, eaten in moderation
by healthy men and women, does not
produce any more cholesterol in the
blood than poultry or fish, says Dr
Margaret Flynn of the University
School of Medicine.
The findings, based on what people
really eat, not purified laboratory di-ets,
raise questions about recom-mendations
that Americans reduce
their beef and pork consumption.
" I think it is wrong to make a blan-ket
statement, as some groups have,
that everyone should or shouldn't eat
this, or that," says Flynn, a nutrition-ist.
" Our subjects showed no signifi-cant
differences in total blood cho-lesterol
no matter which meat they
ate," she says.
During the study, funded by the
School of Medicine and the National
Livctock and Meat Board, Flynn's
subjects ate at home or in restau-rants
as they normally would. But,
during each of three 90- da- y periods
they ate only one type of meat, con-suming
at least five ounces of it a
day, plus one egg.
Subjects' blood fat and cholesterol,
all normal when the study began,
were measured before and after
each three- mon- th sunt.
While essential for life, too much
cholesterol is thought to produce
hardening of the arteries and other
diseases. Because fish and poultry
contain less saturated fat than most
cuts of beef or pork, many experts
believe they produce less cholesterol
in the human body. The less satu-rated
fat you eat, their reasoning
goes, the less cholesterol you should
have in your blood.
Flynn, and others, do not see such
clear cause and effect.
" Our bodies make cholesterol
from a variety of substances, not
just saturated animal fats," says
Flynn, adding that even the
relationship between cholesterol and
disease is not clear.
" Data from our experiment re-vealed
no significant differences in
total serum cholesterol or serum
triglycerides regardless of whether
subjects ate beef, which is usually
high in saturated fats, or fish and
poultry, which is low, or pork, which
falls in between," she says.
Flynn's data did reveal one
change. Significant differences in
high- densi- ty lipoprotein cholesterol
( HDLP) levels were found, but no
pattern was evident. Some people
produced rr" re of the material, oth-ers
less.
Many researchers believe HDLP
changes may be due to the body's at-tempt
to maintain a certain choles-terol
level, regardless of what is eat-en
If too much " bad" cholesterol
appears, the body may make more
HDLP to remove it from the blood. If
the proper amount of cholesterol is
present, the HDLP level may de-cline.
Flynn notes that other studies
which did show a link between diet
and cholesterol involved the use of
highly refined laboratory diets, not
foods such as turkey with dressing
or hamburgers with the works, that
people typically eat And, most were
relatively short- ter- m projects,
which may not have allowed the
body sufficient time to adjust to the
radicaly altered diet.
" It seems that 80 to 85 percent of
us can eat almost any amount of fat
without any problem, as long as we
keep calories under control," Flynn
says. Suggestions by groups such as
the National Research Council and
the American Heart Association that
Americans eat less beef and pork
are simply too general, she believes.
But regardless of what you eat and
dnnk, do so in moderation.
" Even though unsaturated fat is
supposed to be better for you than
saturated fat, too much of it has
been linked to certain cancers. So,
be prudent in what you eat, and even
during the holidays dont go over-board
on anything or be afraid of
eating something else," Flynn ad-vises.
Churches raise funds
to pay bills for poor
By Lenny Heymann
Missounan staff writer
As the Wilkes Boulevard United
Methodist Church furnace roared in
the background, a dozen Boone
County religious leaders Tuesday or-ganized
to raise $ 15,000 to help the
area's needy meet their utility costs
this winter
The fund, to be distributed through
Columbia's Human Development
Corp , will allow families to pay
overdue bills and have their utilities
turned on.
Many of those families will use
state or local aid to pay subsequent
t utility bills Columbia's CASH pro-- I
gram and the state Utihcare pro-gram
help pay utility bills for the el-derly,
while the state Division of
Family Services has funds available
for ether bills.
David Thayer, county director of
the Human Development Corp , esti-mated
that about 60 or 70 households
need to have their utilities re-instated
Betty Adams, who heads
the Voluntary Action Center, said
her organization's listings indicated
the number is climbing. " It goes up
every day," she said.
" Tonight it's going to be very cold
I know there are well over 100 to 150
families without heat, most with
small children," Mrs Adams said
Charlie Hargrove, assistant city
manager, told the group he has seen
the number of people who can't af-ford
to have their utilities turned on
grow m the past five years This
year, he said, the number of families
without heat is particularly high be-cause
of a 50 percent increase in the
cost of natural gas
" We really believe we're going to
have some difficult situations
some life- threateni- ng situations,"
Hargrove said
Thayer also cited the high cost of
reconnection which can be three
times the cost of the highest pre-vious
monthly bill
The Rev Dennis Swearngm of the
Olivet Christian Church said many
people would like to ignore the prob-lem
" Part of it is middle America t
doesn t want to admit that there are
hungry people in this town," he ob-served
" It's hard to excite people to j
pav other people's utility bills "
Federal money is supposed to be I
available to pay for utility connec- -
tions as well as monthly bills, but bu- - J
reaucratic intricacies have kept I
hook up money from becoming 1
available on schedule The Human
Development Corp is expecting a
grant from the state but Thayer
could only estimate when the money
would arrive m Boone County
Thayer said he expects to receive
$ 30 000 in state utility aid to serve an
eight- count- y area About a third of
the money will be spent in Boone
County, he said The allocation is
only 70 percent of what the corpora-tion
expects from the state before
winter ends, Thayer added
After listening to a summary of
the problem, Lois Llingworth of Oak-land
Christian Church asked Mrs
Adams to wave her magic wand and
cite how much she would need in
hook- u- p cash After some quick fig-uring,
Mrs Adams said $ 15,000
" Let's do something Let's grve it
a shot." Mrs Llingworth responded
" I think the churches of this town
can raise $ 15,000 Also, ministers are
super salesmen "
The clergy, who represented many
denominations, agreed to contact
other churches to gam their partici-pation
in the fund drive It will be
left up to each church to determine
how it will collect money
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STATE HIsr'Riri .
75th Year No. 62 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, November 24, 1982 2 Sections 12 Pages 25 Cents
Reagan to seek gas tax increase to aid highways
WASHINGTON ( UPI) Presi-dent
Reagan said Tuesday be will
ask Congress to boost the federal
gasoline tax by 5 cents a gallon to
pay for a massive highway and
bridge repair program expected to
create more than 300,000 jobs.
Reagan, who declared the plan is
" not a jobs bill," made the an-nouncement
after meeting with his
Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs
moments before leaving the White
House for a weeklong Thanksgiving
holiday in California
He also said he is weighing other
measures, including moving the 10
percent personal income tax cut up
to January, " to give our economy a
fresh boost as we head into 1983."
Chief staff aides of House Demo-cratic
leaders were drafting a sepa-rate
public works jobs bill for intro-duction
in the lame- duc- k session and
planned to confer with Senate Re-publican
leader Howard Baker's
staff today in hopes they can per-suade
Baker to support the measure.
Democratic sources said the jobs
proposal would include a number of
programs involving housing, ad-vancing
some $ 2 billion in General
Services Administration repair pro
jects for public facilities and target-ing
jobs for the long- ter- m unem-ployed
The sources said the plan
was in the preliminary stage, and
they had not yet estimated how
many people could be provided jobs
by the initiative.
A fifth of the estimated $ 5.5 billion
a year the higher gas tax would raise
would go to aid mass transit Rea-gan
said the money would help cities
replace aging buses and rail cars.
The extra nickel would be on top of
the 4- ce- nt gasoline excise tax im-posed
m the 1950s to pay for the in-terstate
highway system. While the
administration envisions about a
five- ye- ar repair program costing
$ 27.5 billion, there has been no sign
the added tax would ever be lifted.
Reagan, speaking to reporters in
the White House press center, said,
" It's my hope that this package can
be high on the agenda when Con-gress
returns to Washington next
week" for a post- electi- on session.
Based on his " early soundings,"
the president said he expects the
proposal to " command broad bipar-tisan
support."
A spokesman for House Speaker
Thomas O'Neill, who has endorsed
the gas tax, said the highway mea-sure
will be a priority item during
the lame- duc- k session, but only " one
of many priorities."
How quickly the program creates
jobs depends primarily on how fast
Congress acts If final action is tak-en
next month, lawmakers could di-rect
that spending on road repairs
begin early next year
Referring to the tax as " the high-way
user fee," Reagan said the addi-tional
5- ce- nt levy will cost the aver-age
motorist $ 30 a year.
He stressed the decrepit condition
of the nation's highways m announc-ing
he would back the plan, but with
11 6 million Americans unemployed,
Reagan has been under pressure to
come up with a jobs program
While saying, " There's no question
that there will obviously be some
employment with it," Reagan in-sisted,
" This is not a jobs bill as
such It is a necessity ' '
The view from Capitol Hill is dif-ferent
The revival of the bill, which
was proposed by Transportation Sec-retary
Drew Lewis last May and re-jected
by Reagan, is seen as a way
of generating 320,000 jobs
It appeared that Reagan moved
quickly to hop aboard a bandwagon
that O Neill and Senate Republican
leader Baker started Monday when
they agreed to proceed with the tax
Colin Hsdfv
A multi- vehicl- e collision blocks traffic on the Interstate 70 bridge over the Missouri River.
" Curs, tracks crash on icy Interstate bridge
By Julia Lobbia
Mlssourian staff writer
The Missouri State Highway Pa-trol
reported three separate acci-dents
Tuesday all within minutes
and feet of each other. The accidents
occurred on the Interstate 70 bndge
over the Missouri River less than
four hours after the season's first
substantial snow fell mthe area
No one was hurt in any of the three
accidents involving eight vehicles,
according to Highway Patrol Sgt
Kenneth Campbell.
Two- tent- hs of an inch of snow fell
by noon in Columbia. Winds aver-aged
15 mph. In northern Missouri,
about an inch of snow fell and wmds
reached 25 mph in some areas.
With the wuid- ch- ul factor, the Na-tional
Weather Service said the tem-perature
at Columbia Regional Air-port
fell to 3 degrees at least three
times Tuesday.
The weather service said that
Tuesday's snowy conditions should
not continue through the Thanksgiv-ing
holiday weekend. The Highway
Patrol and Columbia police said
there were not many weather- relate- d
traffic accidents.
The weather service, however, did
issue a warning that bndges and un-derpasses
could be slick.
Li the accidents along Interstate
70 just after noon, Sgt Campbell
gave the following accounts
The first accident occured at 12 15
pjn. on the bridge one- fift- h of a mile
outside Boone County. Kenneth Har-rison,
23, of Sedaha, tried to slow his
car. When he did, the car hit and be-came
entangled with a passing vehi-cle.
When Harrison's car finally
broke loose, it was struck in the rear
by a tractor- traile- r driven by Dayton
Ettersvold, 30, of Minnesota
That wasn't the end of it for Ham- so- n.
Propelled by Ettersvold's truck,
Harrison's car struck an auto driven
by Pao Ae Shang, 27, of Columbia
According to the Highway Patrol,
Shang's car lost control on the ice- cover- ed
bridge.
The other accidents less than a
minute later and one- tent- h of a mile
away involved two cars, one pick-up
truck and trailer, and two tractor- t-railers
The first car, driven by
Suzan S Neely, 18, of Kansas City,
Mo , was traveling westbound and
began to slow. The second vehicle
was a pick- u- p truck with an animal
trailer attached, driven by Phillip
Forsythe, 37, of Pans, Mo. Forsythe
apparently lost control, and his pick-up
was struck by a third truck driv-en
by Doug Schwen, 28, of Louis-ville,
Ky. Forsythe's truck then hit
Neely's car
At the same time, an 18- wh- eel
tractor- traile- r, driven by James Al- dentayl- or,
33, of Webster, S D , side--
See SNOW, Page 8A
Bars to install
breath testers
CREVE COEUR, Mo. ( UPI)
Customers of bars and res-taurants
in this St. Louis sub-urb
soon will be confronted by
breath- testin- g machines that
will allow patrons to deter-mine
whether they have had
too much to drink.
The ordinance adopted Mon-day
is believed to be the first
of its type in the nation, Mayor
Harold Dielmann said.
Use of the machines would
be voluntary, and the results
could not be used in court
Dielmann said the ordinance
is part of the suburb's effort to
combat drunken driving. The
measure, which goes into ef-fect
Dec. 10, covers establish-ments
that each year sell
more than $ 100,000 in liquor by
thednnk.
" If we can save, one, two or
maybe 12 lives a year, then it's
worth it," Dielmann said.
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Comics B
Opinion 4A
Record -- .. .... 7A
Sports 1- 2- B
Road problems overrun state legislators
By Richard Mytiro
Mlssourian staff writer
One ot the more ticklish problems state legis-lators
will face this January will be how to get tax
money for road and bndge improvements so Mis-souri
will not lose huge chunks of federal match-ing
funds
Last year, legislators saw a crisis coming and
pitched a solution to voters in the form of Proposi-tion
B, which included a 4- cents- a--
gallon gasoline
tax and increased driver's license fees That
would have raised about $ 114 million, enough to
keep federal dollars rolling in on a 9- t- o- l matching
system for interstate highways.
But Proposition B took a drubbing Nov 2 when
more than 870,000 Missounans turned it down In
Boone County, voters spt on the issue, with 50 7
percent opting for the tax
The legislature including Boone County's
three freshmen represen atives, Jim Pauley, Ken
Jacob and Chns Kelly aM state Sen. Roger Wi-lson,
all Democrats will face the issue anew
when the General Assembly convenes in January
Some observers speculate legislators may choose
to enact a reworked version of the rejected gas
tax.
Three of the four local legislators said they
voted for the ballot measure three weeks ago, but
a similiar legislative proposal next session would
get only mixed support from the group Jacob is
not saying what he will do, Wilson and Paule said
they prefer a flat percentage that would increase
taxes with inflation, and Kelly is out of town and
unavailable for comment
Most observers agree the state will be in a pinch i
unless the General Assembly does something this i
session State Highway Department officials say !
that by late 1983 the pot will run dry, and the de-- 1
partment will lose matching federal highway ,
funds With a bleak funding outlook, the depart-ment
shelved projects such as resurfacing 6x-- 2
miles of Route B and 7 miles of U S 63 north of In- -
See GAS TAX, Page 8A
Eat steak and be healthy, too
Study shows cholesterol level equal in all meats
United Press international
Steak may not be as traditional as
turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, but
if you choose to indulge in sirloin, at
least your arteries will not complain,
a new study en blood cholesterol has
found.
Beef, or pork, eaten in moderation
by healthy men and women, does not
produce any more cholesterol in the
blood than poultry or fish, says Dr
Margaret Flynn of the University
School of Medicine.
The findings, based on what people
really eat, not purified laboratory di-ets,
raise questions about recom-mendations
that Americans reduce
their beef and pork consumption.
" I think it is wrong to make a blan-ket
statement, as some groups have,
that everyone should or shouldn't eat
this, or that," says Flynn, a nutrition-ist.
" Our subjects showed no signifi-cant
differences in total blood cho-lesterol
no matter which meat they
ate," she says.
During the study, funded by the
School of Medicine and the National
Livctock and Meat Board, Flynn's
subjects ate at home or in restau-rants
as they normally would. But,
during each of three 90- da- y periods
they ate only one type of meat, con-suming
at least five ounces of it a
day, plus one egg.
Subjects' blood fat and cholesterol,
all normal when the study began,
were measured before and after
each three- mon- th sunt.
While essential for life, too much
cholesterol is thought to produce
hardening of the arteries and other
diseases. Because fish and poultry
contain less saturated fat than most
cuts of beef or pork, many experts
believe they produce less cholesterol
in the human body. The less satu-rated
fat you eat, their reasoning
goes, the less cholesterol you should
have in your blood.
Flynn, and others, do not see such
clear cause and effect.
" Our bodies make cholesterol
from a variety of substances, not
just saturated animal fats," says
Flynn, adding that even the
relationship between cholesterol and
disease is not clear.
" Data from our experiment re-vealed
no significant differences in
total serum cholesterol or serum
triglycerides regardless of whether
subjects ate beef, which is usually
high in saturated fats, or fish and
poultry, which is low, or pork, which
falls in between," she says.
Flynn's data did reveal one
change. Significant differences in
high- densi- ty lipoprotein cholesterol
( HDLP) levels were found, but no
pattern was evident. Some people
produced rr" re of the material, oth-ers
less.
Many researchers believe HDLP
changes may be due to the body's at-tempt
to maintain a certain choles-terol
level, regardless of what is eat-en
If too much " bad" cholesterol
appears, the body may make more
HDLP to remove it from the blood. If
the proper amount of cholesterol is
present, the HDLP level may de-cline.
Flynn notes that other studies
which did show a link between diet
and cholesterol involved the use of
highly refined laboratory diets, not
foods such as turkey with dressing
or hamburgers with the works, that
people typically eat And, most were
relatively short- ter- m projects,
which may not have allowed the
body sufficient time to adjust to the
radicaly altered diet.
" It seems that 80 to 85 percent of
us can eat almost any amount of fat
without any problem, as long as we
keep calories under control," Flynn
says. Suggestions by groups such as
the National Research Council and
the American Heart Association that
Americans eat less beef and pork
are simply too general, she believes.
But regardless of what you eat and
dnnk, do so in moderation.
" Even though unsaturated fat is
supposed to be better for you than
saturated fat, too much of it has
been linked to certain cancers. So,
be prudent in what you eat, and even
during the holidays dont go over-board
on anything or be afraid of
eating something else," Flynn ad-vises.
Churches raise funds
to pay bills for poor
By Lenny Heymann
Missounan staff writer
As the Wilkes Boulevard United
Methodist Church furnace roared in
the background, a dozen Boone
County religious leaders Tuesday or-ganized
to raise $ 15,000 to help the
area's needy meet their utility costs
this winter
The fund, to be distributed through
Columbia's Human Development
Corp , will allow families to pay
overdue bills and have their utilities
turned on.
Many of those families will use
state or local aid to pay subsequent
t utility bills Columbia's CASH pro-- I
gram and the state Utihcare pro-gram
help pay utility bills for the el-derly,
while the state Division of
Family Services has funds available
for ether bills.
David Thayer, county director of
the Human Development Corp , esti-mated
that about 60 or 70 households
need to have their utilities re-instated
Betty Adams, who heads
the Voluntary Action Center, said
her organization's listings indicated
the number is climbing. " It goes up
every day," she said.
" Tonight it's going to be very cold
I know there are well over 100 to 150
families without heat, most with
small children," Mrs Adams said
Charlie Hargrove, assistant city
manager, told the group he has seen
the number of people who can't af-ford
to have their utilities turned on
grow m the past five years This
year, he said, the number of families
without heat is particularly high be-cause
of a 50 percent increase in the
cost of natural gas
" We really believe we're going to
have some difficult situations
some life- threateni- ng situations,"
Hargrove said
Thayer also cited the high cost of
reconnection which can be three
times the cost of the highest pre-vious
monthly bill
The Rev Dennis Swearngm of the
Olivet Christian Church said many
people would like to ignore the prob-lem
" Part of it is middle America t
doesn t want to admit that there are
hungry people in this town," he ob-served
" It's hard to excite people to j
pav other people's utility bills "
Federal money is supposed to be I
available to pay for utility connec- -
tions as well as monthly bills, but bu- - J
reaucratic intricacies have kept I
hook up money from becoming 1
available on schedule The Human
Development Corp is expecting a
grant from the state but Thayer
could only estimate when the money
would arrive m Boone County
Thayer said he expects to receive
$ 30 000 in state utility aid to serve an
eight- count- y area About a third of
the money will be spent in Boone
County, he said The allocation is
only 70 percent of what the corpora-tion
expects from the state before
winter ends, Thayer added
After listening to a summary of
the problem, Lois Llingworth of Oak-land
Christian Church asked Mrs
Adams to wave her magic wand and
cite how much she would need in
hook- u- p cash After some quick fig-uring,
Mrs Adams said $ 15,000
" Let's do something Let's grve it
a shot." Mrs Llingworth responded
" I think the churches of this town
can raise $ 15,000 Also, ministers are
super salesmen "
The clergy, who represented many
denominations, agreed to contact
other churches to gam their partici-pation
in the fund drive It will be
left up to each church to determine
how it will collect money
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